This dissertation provides foundational knowledge, methods, and tools to equip
engineers in discovering, documenting, and acting upon contextual information important
for successful product design. These contributions ...

Design Effectiveness is the degree to which the design effort helps in achieving project value objectives. Because Design Effectiveness largely exists within the context of the design phase, considerations on other project ...

This research demonstrates that the perceived unity of product form and function has a significant effect on consumers’ product evaluations, where unity refers to the perception that the form and function share common ...